# Gordon Pennycook

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/gordon-pennycook/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 34,231 |
| Field | Misinformation and Its Impacts |
| h-index | 77 |
| i10-index | 174 |
| Last Known Institution | University of Regina |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5020533147 |
| ORCID iD | 0000-0003-1344-6143 |
| Works | 309 |

## Researcher papers

Showing 12 of 15.

- [Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response](https://scholariq.org/papers/using-social-and-behavioural-science-to-support-covid-19-pandemic-response/)
- [The science of fake news](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-science-of-fake-news/)
- [Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention](https://scholariq.org/papers/fighting-covid-19-misinformation-on-social-media-experimental-evidence-for-a/)
- [The Psychology of Fake News](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-psychology-of-fake-news/)
- [Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news.](https://scholariq.org/papers/prior-exposure-increases-perceived-accuracy-of-fake-news/)
- [Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online](https://scholariq.org/papers/shifting-attention-to-accuracy-can-reduce-misinformation-online/)
- [Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality](https://scholariq.org/papers/fighting-misinformation-on-social-media-using-crowdsourced-judgments-of-news/)
- [Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking](https://scholariq.org/papers/who-falls-for-fake-news-the-roles-of-bullshit-receptivity-overclaiming/)
- [The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-implied-truth-effect-attaching-warnings-to-a-subset-of-fake-news-headlines/)
- [Intuition, reason, and metacognition](https://scholariq.org/papers/intuition-reason-and-metacognition/)
- [Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response](https://scholariq.org/papers/using-social-and-behavioural-science-to-support-covid-19-pandemic-response-2/)
- [Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI](https://scholariq.org/papers/durably-reducing-conspiracy-beliefs-through-dialogues-with-ai/)

## Researcher topics

- [Misinformation and Its Impacts](https://scholariq.org/topics/misinformation-and-its-impacts/)
- [Social Media and Politics](https://scholariq.org/topics/social-media-and-politics/)
- [Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment](https://scholariq.org/topics/psychology-of-moral-and-emotional-judgment/)
- [Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics](https://scholariq.org/topics/decision-making-and-behavioral-economics/)
- [Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection](https://scholariq.org/topics/hate-speech-and-cyberbullying-detection/)

## Researcher university

- [University of Regina](https://scholariq.org/institutions/university-of-regina/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.